KYIV. June 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s Health Ministry seeks to intensify cooperation with the World Bank in the healthcare reform sphere under a joint project Serving People, Improving Health Project being realized in Ukraine since 2015 in eight regions.
The press service of the ministry reported that the issue was discussed at a meeting of acting Health Minister Viktor Shafransky with representatives of the World Bank on Wednesday.
The sides agreed the tighter meeting schedule to discuss the problematic issues and joint actions under the project, intensified work in the regions, attraction of World Bank representatives to working groups of the key directions of reforms.
“We intend to accelerate the implementation of the project at the central and regional levels alike. It is important to plan and coordinate actions between all sides, clearly set tasks and terms and control their implementation. The result is important, not the process,” Shafransky said.
In March 2015, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a $214.73 million loan provided by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to implement Serving People, Improving Health Project. The project will seek to develop medical infrastructure and improve the quality of health services in eight regions across the country: Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Poltava and Rivne regions.
